# עָצֵל (atsel)

Israeli respelling: a-tsel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6102. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

indolent

King James renderings: slothful, sluggard.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/atsel-h6102

## Occurrences

- [Proverbs 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/6) — Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
- [Proverbs 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/9) — How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- [Proverbs 10:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/26) — As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
- [Proverbs 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/4) — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- [Proverbs 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/19) — The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- [Proverbs 19:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/24) — A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
- [Proverbs 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/4) — The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- [Proverbs 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/25) — The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
- [Proverbs 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/13) — The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
- [Proverbs 24:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/30) — I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
- [Proverbs 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/13) — The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
- [Proverbs 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/14) — As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
- [Proverbs 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/15) — The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
- [Proverbs 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/16) — The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.